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Peter Hayes. From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 373 pp. ISBN 0-521-78227-9, $40.00.
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Over the past few years, many histories of German companies during the Third Reich have been published. They are a response to the attempts by survivors to obtain restitution from firms involved in the commission of crimes against humanity during that period. Peter Hayess portrayal of one of the enterprises that was most deeply involved, Degussa, is among the best.
Hayes begins his work with a disclaimer that "this book is designed not as an all-embracing
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